2:28 and careful dipping into R'lyeh has yielded quite a shiny suit of dragon scale mail. Can't see why anyone would gush over a set of balance dragon scale mail when these gorgeous suits exist ;)

Interestingly, PDSM is not the end-all be-all, as the all-but-blindness resists can be obsolete if the rest of the gear provides adequate coverage. Other attributes such as sustains, stealth and stats are also very desirable from various artifact armors...but having this baby allows much more flexibility in the other armor slots.

Now I have no choice but to play in a very paranoid fashion to preserve this unicorn hater's dear life.

On 7.5.2012 07:37 Arjen wrote:So you just pop your head in R'lyeh and you find a Powerdsm? *checks* And not even a "lucky" personality. Lucky :)

Now the fun begins with Nature's Wrath ;) Still have to find a copy of Armageddon Tome, but I can take care of that with the quest I guess. Taking Chaos as an attack realm is delayed gratification in terms of damage, but oh so worth it in the end.

The book Nature's Wrath (aside from the namesake spell) has a very decently mana-efficient damage spell in Lightning Storm, and it definitely saw a decent bit of action on the occasions I needed some heavier damage. Early levels worked well with Mana Burst, and the very nice 4 mana per cast with mastery and a Wizardstaff.

Saruman is actually a pretty nice Wizardstaff, but a little obsolete with my current gear and the Nature realm :) Nothing wrong with the +spell capacity on it though, and I've quite a decent mana pool at the moment.

I'd have to say Chaos/Nature is definitely one of my favorite combos so far for mages. Next time, I should really get more creative though...I think this is my third caster with this combo.

On 10.5.2012 08:32 kingvictory2003 wrote:Forgot to mention that the set of dragon gloves artifact I have was the result of reading two scrolls of madness in the depths of Angband on gloves that spawned with rNexus and rChaos. The first scroll blew up in my face, and the 2nd generated the artifact. Not exactly useful except for the AC boost, but the no con really bites. Oh well.